Ditto, what Mytly said.

And BB is about thirty thousand times better (in every way) than The Sopranos.

I agree (and thank you for saying this) Anna Gunn is a woefully inadequate actress (at least in BB, I am not familiar with her other work). I think she was miscast. It does her no favors that the rest of the cast are extraordinarily talented, which just shows up her consistently crude, graceless, superficial…

Would you agree that "Scarface" just feels endless, and is a joyless viewing experience? I first watched it when I was 17 and hated it (mostly because it bored me). I then rewatched it ten years later, expecting to appreciate it more, discover a classic that I had been too dull to appreciate the first time around.…

Carlito's Way is one of the most flat-out entertaining movies ever made. It's a total guilty pleasure for me. I must have watched it at least six times. Scarface, on the other hand, is endless, tedious, self-serious and pretty stupid.

Ha ha - Hilarious!!! Thanks for making me laugh, Murray-Present! Perfect comment.

Well said, indiequeenbee, well said!

Rene Zellweger was HOT in Empire Record (I know, I know … crazy), especially when she sings that terrible song, "Sugar High" at the very end. I watched that movie when I still smoked dope, and it's a great watch while baked. It really is. Sober, I can only imagine it's insufferable…

Touche!

"Singles" is way better than "Reality Bites," and has a terrific soundtrack, too, and all sorts of winning, authentic, small moments. "Reality Bites" just never amounts to a hill of beans, and is whiny and overlong and terribly paced. Last time I watched it I was overcome with the desire to murder the Ethan Hawke…

Wasn't "Friends" the "Reality Bites" sitcom, and actually IN the "Reality Bites" era. And it was much better than the movie!

I'm not ruling out that Skyler isn't putting herself (and her kids) first, but I don't see how this keeping-her-options-open argument squares with not calling Walt after speaking with Hank. Wouldn't she want to know how much Hank knows? As they say, knowledge is power. Everything we have ever been told about Skyler's…

I totally buy into the Lydia character. She has never snapped me right out of a scene, the way Anna Gunn's frequent overacting (or self-conscious posturing) as Skyler too often has.

I thought it was much, much better than "Blood Money." But then "Blood Money" suffered that first-episode-of-a-season curse of being cumbersome, in having to get all the machinery whirring and set everything up. (Much like the first episode of last season which was a big disappointment.) I thought this was a really…

I know there are plans to have a Saul Goodman spin-off, but I'd totally watch a Lydia spin-off, in which she goes around the world inspecting meth labs and killing anyone who gets in her way.

Great point! I'd actually love to see that version of the show, too. Although I'm thinking Todd would have killed Walt by the end of Season Three at least.

Not sure he would be fired, but it's more Hank's own anxiety/insecurity/inadequacy coming through here. Remember in (I think) Season Two, when he got that promotion to working a difficult cartel gig, and basically had a nervous breakdown, and had to come scurrying home. So tough Hank is actually super-sensitive, and…

I thought this was a really good episode. But - and forgive me if this has been discussed elsewhere, I don't have the time to read the nine million preceding comments - I just don't get why Skyler didn't call Walt back before meeting with Hank. Sure, it injected tension into the episode, and was dramatically…

I totally agree. Jesse's motivations (or lack thereof) don't quite ring true. I'm a big fan of Aaron Paul, but his performance bothered me last night. That mopey, slurred, pseudo-stoned, sleepwalking style just felt awfully lazy and inadequate somehow. It felt like Aaron Paul wasn't in the scene, or even in the show…

I also don't buy the whole Jesse-throws-money-out-of-the-car thing. It was unrealistic, and dangerously close to a Hollywood cliché. The same subject was dealt with a lot more subtly (and realistically) in a previous season, when Jesse just gets high and leaves briefcases of money lying around, which then get stolen…